EACON has passed 4,000 mining trucks deployed with its ORCASTRA autonomous haulage system (AHS) across Chinese mine sites, more than doubling the fleet count of its nearest competitor. The scale-up, focused on large open-pit coal and iron ore operations using 90–220 t class rigid trucks, signals rapid normalisation of AHS for production haulage rather than limited pilots. For mine planners and OEMs, this volume stresses interoperability, traffic management algorithms, and brownfield haul road design suitable for high-density autonomous fleets.

Tier IV has started joint development with Komatsu on autonomous driving systems for three quarry-class dump truck models, targeting deployment at quarrying and civil engineering sites in Japan and North America. The work, led through Tier IV subsidiary EARTHBRAIN Inc, builds on a collaboration with Komatsu that began in September 2025 and aims to move beyond mine-haul fleets into smaller, mixed-traffic operations. For operators, the project signals upcoming autonomy options on rigid trucks and articulated dump trucks suited to short-haul quarry cycles and tighter benches.

Pan Mine in Nevada has increased material movement after Mining Americas (formerly Minera Alamos) brought in Turner Mining Group in January 2026 to take over contract mining. Turner was tasked with rapidly mobilising operators, a full yellow‑iron fleet and support assets to ramp up waste stripping and ore delivery on the open-pit, heap-leach gold operation. The change signals growing reliance on specialist mining contractors to stabilise production rates and manage equipment-intensive overburden removal on mid-tier US gold projects.